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We found 3568 matches on Roles/Actors, 1162 matches on Performance Comments, 1039 matches on Event Comments, 402 matches on Author, and 331 matches on Performance Title.
Event Comment: MMiss Haughton did second Constantia-Mrs Cibber gave it up-some days ago ($Cross). [Early in the next year was published The Devil upon Crutches in England; or, Night Scenes in London. By a Gentleman of Oxford. Chapter V gives a Short View of the Theatres including sharp criticism of 'the most barefaced bawdry Farce...that ever disgraced the stage, in which the Manager, who has caused it to be reviv'd, is to perform the principal part. The Play, Sir, is call'd the Chances...and this is the tenth night of its representation to crowded houses...Your fair country women...are fond of the most fulsome obscenity on the stage."] Receipts: #150 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Song: II: (By desire) The School of Anacreon-Beard

Dance: IV: The Shepherd's Holiday, as17541008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Murphy
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

Dance: As17541203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Master Simson

Afterpiece Title: The Genii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: PPas de Quatre, as17550104; Chinese Dance, as17550104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Murphy
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Mossop, first time

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Mossop, first time

Afterpiece Title: Proteus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Cast
Role: Duke of York Actor: Miss Hallam

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Dance: Granier and Mrs Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: CComic Dance-Granier and Mrs Granier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Murphy
Role: Duke Actor: Marten

Afterpiece Title: Lady Moore; or, The Dragoness

Song: III: Arm Arm ye Brave-Legg; IV: School of Anacreon-Legg

Dance: As17550420

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Duke Senior Actor: Blakes
Role: Duke Frederick Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Cast
Role: Jasper Actor: Mas. Cautherley

Dance: I: Hornpipe-Walker

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of the Masque to be sold at the Theatre. Receipts: #120 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: Britannia

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Hacket first time on any stage
Role: Duke Actor: Carr

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: TThe Drunken Peasant-; Peasant-Settree; Clown-Hussey

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Hacket first time on any stage
Role: Duke Actor: Carr

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb the Great

Event Comment: Some Noise at the Dancers, but not great (Cross). Tomorrow will be publish'd The Dancers Damn'd; Or The Devil to Pay at the old House. Price 6d. Printed for R. Griffiths. [Appears to be an eyewitness, journalistic account, but turns into a considered attack upon mob patriotism. Author purports to describe the action which took place Wednesday night 12 Nov. 1755: 'When the Chinese scene was expos'd, the leader of the Loyal party advanced to the front of the Gallery and thus bespake the House: "O Britons! O my Countrymen! Ye will certainly not suffer these foreign clogs to amuse us. Our destruction is at hand. These sixty dancers are come over with a design to undermine our constitution. This Navarre is Marshall Lewendahl, and the least amongst them is an ensign, disguised in order to perpetrate our ruin!"' After alternate encouragement and abuse Reason, who had descended from the clouds, spoke: "I came hither by the persuasion of Truth and Justice to tell you that amongst all this number of dancers that now stand ready to entertain you there are no more than Four French men and about the same number of females; that their Chief is a Swiss Protestant, who, had not his merit protected him would have been hiss'd off the stage at Paris, for being a Swiss Protestant. And will you damn him for the same reason? Will you pay less regard to Genius than a French Audience? Here a cat-call and one cried out: 'Swiss! What the devil do we know of Swiss! a Swiss is a foreigner, and all foreigners are Frenchmen; and so damn you all!"'] Receipts: #140 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Duke Senior Actor: Blakes
Role: Duke Frederick Actor: Bransby

Afterpiece Title: The Chinese Festival

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Dance: II: New Pantomime Dance-Children, as17551203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Related Works
Related Work: The Chances Author(s): George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Afterpiece Title: The Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: II: Pantomime Dance-the children, as17551203

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Cast
Role: Duke of Florence Actor: Burton

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, as17560205

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Duke Actor: Anderson

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: I: Hornpipe-LeCointe; II: New Dance call'd Les Paisans Iriquois-M Bienfait, Lucas; III: Minuet-Guerin, Mrs Rowland, a girl 7 years old, a scholar of Mlle Capdeville; IV: Pas de Trois, call'd Les Paisans Allemandes-Guerin, Bienfait, Lucas; V: A New Dance call'd Les Savetiers-Guerin, Bienfait, Mrs Rowland